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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (pronunciación en kikuyu: /ŋɡoɣe wa ðiɔŋɔ/; Limuru, Kenia, 5 de enero de 1938 [1] ) es un escritor de Kenia que escribe principalmente en kikuyu. Ha escrito varias novelas, ensayos y cuentos; fundado el periódico en kikuyu Mutiiri y colaborado en el departamento de traducción e interpretación de la Universidad de ...
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (Gikuyu pronunciation: [ᵑɡoɣe wá ðiɔŋɔ]; born James Ngugi; 5 January 1938) is a Kenyan author and academic, who has been described as "East Africa's leading novelist". He began writing in English, switching to write primarily in Gikuyu.
Novelista, editor, periodista, profesor universitario y activista social nacido en Kenia. Su trayectoria literaria está marcada por la revuelta del Mau Mau por la independencia de su país ante los británicos, hecho que vivió y representa un acontecimiento histórico crucial para entender su obra.
Profile of a Literary and Social Activist. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, currently Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, was born in Kenya, in 1938 into a large peasant family.
28 de mar. de 2024 · Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Kenyan writer who was considered East Africa’s leading novelist. His popular Weep Not, Child (1964) was the first major novel in English by an East African. As he became sensitized to the effects of colonialism in Africa, he wrote in the Bantu language of Kenya’s Kikuyu people.
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Ngugi wa Thiong'o – Ngugi wa Thiong'o is a novelist and theorist of post-colonial literature. WRESTLING WITH THE DEVIL. An unforgettable chronicle of the year Ngũgĩ was thrown in prison without charge.
Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature. Decolonising the Mind is a collection of essays about language and its constructive role in national culture, history, and identity.
